[ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ] Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > No. New upstream versions do not go into stable without *very* > > good reason. > > Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which > has since long been superseded by some 31 following patchlevels > including serious bug fixing and quite some very worthy new features > culminating into the switch from "mc-3.5.48" to "mc-4.0". And it's 31 patch levels of new and untested (in Debian) code. Not to mention that if you were to release it it would be a new maintainer and completely new and untested Debian packaging. > The latter is an officially released version by the official > upstream maintainers and i'm sincerely of the opinion that we > shouldn't accept any obsolete devel versions of programs in stable. It's Debian policy (afaik) that as little as possible should go into stable after release, and *definitely* as little as possible, if any, new upstream releases. (The only exception to this is major security holes, which is why xfree 3.3 might/will be going into bo-updates) -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .